Sea Power's Control Forces

By Colonel George A. Roll, U. S. Marine Corps
October 1954
To wage war is a political decision. The central purpose of war is to establish a measure of control over the peoples, the land, and the resources of an adversary ...

Islam, Force For East Or West?

By Captain Russell S. Hibbs, U. S. Marine Corps
October 1954
The Islamic world stretches across more than 135° of longitude, from Spanish Morocco in the west to the Celebes in the east. Geographically continuous except for a gap in the ...

The Navy Enlisted Man

By Edmund A. Gibson
October 1954
In August, 1950, I embarked upon what was probably my last active duty in the Navy, and upon my separation in November, 1951, I had completed over eight years of ...

Columbus Landed On Caicos

By Commodore P. Verhoog, Holland-American Line (Retired)
October 1954
The exact landfall of Christopher Columbus has long been a matter of dispute. Surprisingly enough, however, the question was apparently of little interest in that half century after 1492, for ...

Catapults Come of Age

By Lieutenant Dorothy L. Small, U. S. Naval Reserve
October 1954
On December 3, 1953, Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air, James Smith, pressed the magic button that released the first catapult-shot from the American steam catapult. As the F9F-6 Grumman ...

Skijump II

By Lieutenant Commander William V. Kielhorn, U. S. Coast Guard Reserve
October 1954
Skijump II, exploration of the Arctic Ocean in winter using aircraft instead of ships, was organized by the Geophysics Branch, Earth Sciences Division, Office of Naval Research. Its primary purpose ...

The Secret Of Kremlin Warfare*

By Lieutenant Commander Montgomery M. Green, U. S. Naval Reserve and Joseph Zack Kornfeder
October 1954
It is more than a decade since Winston Churchill characterized Stalin’s Russia as “a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma,” and a mystery it still is to the ...

Historic Anchors

By Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Rawson, Royal Australian Navy (Retired)
October 1954
In a recent paper that appeared in the British journal, Mariner's Mirror—an elaborate and technical account of the anchor by Mr. J. W. van Nouhuys—its author speculated upon the ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

October 1954
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Book Reviews

October 1954
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Professional Notes

October 1954
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